Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social FactorsISBN: 978-0-631-17915-3
Hardcover
596 pages
March 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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"William Labov's work is the cornerstone of quantitative
sociolinguistics, and his pre-eminence in the field is assured for
now and for some time to come. He has taught a whole generation of
scholars the skills of careful and accountable fieldwork and of
analysing linguistic data collected in the field, and in this
respect his work has been inspirational." Journal of
Linguistics
"It was the unanimous decision of the Committee to award this
year's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award to Labov's book. The
Committee feels this book is a landmark in the study of language
change. It not only presents a coherent and compelling account of
the internal mechanics of phonological change, but successfully
integrates this account with theoretical advances in grammatical
theory, sociolinguistics, and dialectology, as well as historical
linguistics. Labov's scholarship in this work is unsurpassed and
ranges from a proposed solution to the Neogrammarian controversy,
to an account of the changing dialect situation in the United
States, to proposals for applying the theory of lexical phonology
to the explanation of a set of historical paradoxes, and to
exploring the limits of functional explanation."
LSA
"This is a book that anyone interested in social factors in language change will want to read." Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development.